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IMPROVEMENT 1N WATER-WHEELS..

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Be it known that we, FRANKLIN HOYT and AARON DENIO, both of Montpelier, in the-countyof Washington, and State oi` Vermont, have invented-certain neiv and useful Improvements in ApplyingV and Controllngthe Action of Water on Water-Wheels, of which the following is a full", clear, and exact descriptiomreference being had to the accompanying drawings, rnaking part ot' this specica'tiomin -vvhich- Figure `1 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional elevation,

Figure 2 a side, and

Figure 3 a top viewall as applied -to a wheel on a. horizontal shaft, or to a horizontal wheel.

4In this invention, the wheel A may be any well-constructed wheel, and the buekets'may be curved and intersect each other, as shown, or in any other form upon which water can 'act to advantage; but, to obtain the best results from the action of the Water, we employ an inletchute,fB, and an outlet-chute, C, combined, and

applied to the periphery of the wheel in reversed positions,"as shown in iig. 1, wherefit will' be observed that the terminus of the curved chutes, or the central portion, D, thereof, is brought so near the'periphery of the wheel that no great quantity ci' water can pass between the wheel andthe portion Def the combined chut-es without turning the wh'eel. i i A i i v It is not always necessary that the inlet-chuteB should be applied so low down as shown .Vin igfl, or as shown in black lines in'iig. l, but such inlet-chute may be arranged higher, as shown inred lines in'tig, 1, and,

in the latter case, the portion` D of th'e'combinedchutes may-be longer and cover more' surface, and retain waterj in the buckets while they are passing from a to al, producing the same eil'ect' as in the breastwheel, `where'the weight, as well as the force of water, ismade available. A

In this invention, the reversed 4chute C conducts the water froin Vthe'wheel in asolid column, and,'by Y extend-ing the lastfnamed chute down the stream a greater or less distance, the columnof water in the chute C, so extended, will act in connection with the vrater passing in at the chute B, by drawing or sucking on the lou'er buckets, and thewater passing the portion D and in the buckets, and the intensity of such sucking action .will be in proportiou'to the elevation of the extended chute and the'peri'cc'tion .of the column of water therein,

or passing through the sume.

,' lhese' double-reversed chutes, with the outletchute extending down the stream, are intended to be usedA where the head of water is insufficient to obtain the* amount o tpower required, and, in such cases, the sucking action oi' the column of water in the extended chute-will aid considerably in multiplying or increasing thej effective vpower of the wheel.

V The same lau' holds goed where the hea importance where the head and the quantity of water are limited. t 'I The double-reversed chutes, andthe chute C'exrenderl, and both applied as shown in black lines in figs. 1 able where there is only temporary dam, or at the side `oi a stream, brook, or

and 2, render the wheel avail river, where there is no dam, and power o t v of the wheel and the portion.D of the combined chutes, as well'as whilefin contact with the wheel.

The vent-hole ic, above the chutegB, is g 4 may be necessary to insure an easy act-ionottheivater vin iilling andernptying the buckets. The vent-hein. g1 above the chute C, is for theirs-amo purpose. l

Either of these ventthe currentsy of air passing through such vent-holescan be'regulated as desired.

The ombnerl chutes are made adjustable to' the' periphery oi the wheel (to which theyare closely fitted) rl ot'. fatelis ample, but -the extended chute will. be oi" greater btained from the action of the `water after it haspassed the buckets to admitv air to the buckets, `or to free the buckets from ar, \vhich holes may be closed, o r partly closed, by a cover, n, arranged for that purpose, and

by means of-slots c, in some portion ot`- the frame which supports the wheelV and the chutes, and by. Bjolts"`or g screws-e passing-through the parts, to hold them firmly together.

Our improvements can be app lied to `vertical wheels as well as to horizontal ivheels, and when appliedyto va vertical wheeh'the extra chute, B, maybe applied* to the opposite side o f the wheehias, shown'in g. 2,) and thereby obtain vadditional power, independent of the draught or suction, admitting of the. application' of two gates to the wheel.

Having fully described `our new invention, whatwe claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The adjustable inlet-chute B and the extended outlet-chute C, provided with regulatingevents kg, and arranged in relation to each other, and to the wheel A, substantially as deseibed, for the purpose specified. FRANKLIN HOYT, AARON DENIO.

I- Witnesses:

ORAMEL H. SMITH, JOEL WINCH. 

